Ellen DeGeneres was unapologetic as she addressed the controversy which led her to exit the leisure two years in the past.
Throughout Monday’s present of “Ellen’s Last Stand…Up” tour in Santa Rosa, California, SFGATE reported that the comic brazenly balked at the concept she’s a merciless particular person, telling audiences, “I am many things, but I am not mean.”
DeGeneres’ fame for being imply made headlines in 2020, after BuzzFeed Information printed a report that includes the accounts of almost a dozen present and former workers who anonymously accused the previous speak present host of fostering a poisonous work setting on the set of her eponymous daytime collection.
Undermining her public motto of “be kind,” DeGeneres and executives on the present have been accused of usually making inappropriate feedback about workers’ race, firing workers for taking medical depart and making a basic tradition of concern on the office.
Within the fallout, the “Finding Nemo” voice expertise made a public apology, and in Could 2021, she introduced “The Ellen DeGeneres” could be ending after its nineteenth season.
At Monday’s present, DeGeneres gleefully made mild of the scandal, kicking off her set by saying, “Let me catch you up on what’s been going on with me since you last saw me.”
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Brushing previous the elephant within the room, she paused and soaked within the viewers’s laughter earlier than joking, “I got chickens.”
“Oh yeah, and I got kicked out of show business for being mean,” DeGeneres then added.
Throughout her efficiency, the actor admitted to being a harsh boss however pushed again on accusations she was outright nasty.
“I can be demanding and impatient and tough. I am a strong woman,” she mentioned.
Elsewhere through the present, DeGeneres reminded audiences how she already endured a Hollywood ouster after publicly popping out as a lesbian in 1997.
“Next time, I’ll be kicked out for being old,” she quipped. “Old, gay and mean, the triple crown.”
The star additionally confirmed that the tour and its accompanying Netflix particular could be her final hurrah, telling followers, “This is the last time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix special, I’m done.”
Not lengthy after SFGATE printed its account of DeGeneres’ standup present, Deadline reported that a number of tour dates in Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago had been abruptly canceled.
